Yep. The comment is both racist and extremely unhelpful.
Pick any two groups. Perhaps two nationalities. Or two professions. The chances of the two groups having the same average IQs is low. What would be the point of broadcasting the data from the lower group? How would that help anything? All it can do is divide.
Now here’s what would be helpful: saying that urban blacks are very underserved by public education. And I say that as a retired urban public school teacher. The system demands little. So way too many black kids do little.
That sets them up for a life of failure.
“Now here’s what would be helpful: saying that urban blacks are very underserved by public education...”
Exactly!
“What would be the point of broadcasting the data from the lower group? How would that help anything? All it can do is divide”
Not broadcasting it will also divide.
What we currently have is the narrative that “blacks are just as intelligent as whites, and the reason for their not being in good jobs is white supremacists keeping them down”, thus creating rage.
The ONLY counter to the “white supremacist” theory, is acknowledgment and acceptance of genetic differences.
Disagree. It is helpful to know that different cultural groups have different IQ averages. The point of the Bell Curve was that IQ (which is a measure of the ability to learn) is not genetic but cultural.
Thomas Sowell made the same point; black households in comparison to whites and Asians expose children to fewer spoken words in the first 3 years of life and tend to read to their children less than other cultures. Focus in the household is often not on education. This impacts the child’s ability to learn new concepts later.
Differences in IQ averages among ethnic groups is not genetic, but reflects cultural differences in the approach to knowledge, language and learning. If we don’t begin to acknowledge the problem and its causes, we will not address the ethnic achievement gap that plagues us. Pouring more money into public education won’t solve the problem until we have black households focusing on education as a valuable goal and institute changes within the household to address it.
‘So way too many black kids do little.’
yes, public education has failed miserably in many areas, but another reason black kids do little is because their culture lionizes sticking it to the powers that be...a black kid who studies will be denounced by many of his comrades, and will be in fear for his physical safety...